Ms Tricia Lee > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Dechert LLP
Three Bryant Park, 1095 Avenue of the Americas
NEW YORK, NY 10036-6797
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Financial Services and Investment Management

Position

Partner

Career

Tricia Lee focuses her practice on the formation, structuring, and operation of private funds, and has represented private equity, real estate, credit, distressed, and other types of private funds. She regularly represents the so-called “mega funds” (vehicles raising pooled capital of US$5 billion or more), and her experience encompasses a full range of established sponsors as well as first-time fund launches. She also advises clients in connection with placement agent agreements, separately managed accounts, co-investments, and a host of other transactions, as well as counseling clients on general corporate matters, including transactional and governance issues. She has extensive experience negotiating, structuring and closing a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships.

Education

  • Arcadia University, B.A., 1997, summa cum laude
  • Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., 2000, summa cum laude, Case note/comment editor, Texas Tech Law Review, Order of the Coif

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)

Dechert LLP is engaged primarily by private equity firms and investment advisers in the financial services space, where the team regularly receives fund formation, structuring, capital raising and regulatory mandates. The team works sponsor side on various fund types, with recent examples including buyout, private equity, private credit and venture capital. Practice head Omoz Osayimwese is active in the firms New York office and works primarily with private equity and credit funds clients on fund formations and their ongoing management. Further key members of the practice are Tricia Lee in Austin, who works with high value private equity, real estate and credit funds, Lindsay Trapp in Charlotte bolsters the teams offering on cross-border fund formation matters, particularly Irish funds, and Carl de Brito in New York, who has a well-established practice working with notable global private equity funds, asset management firms and financial institutions.